Ignore Deprecated Type Warnings on import Statement

Question

I'm importing a class which has been deprecated, which I'm forced to use.

I want to suppress the deprecated error using the @SuppressWarnings("deprecation") annotation.

As per the comment on that annotation:

As a matter of style, programmers should always use this annotation on the most deeply nested element where it is effective. If you want to suppress a warning in a particular method, you should annotate that method rather than its class.

So I clearly don't want to annotate the class and thus suppress deprecation warnings on any type my class uses, but I also would like to use the import statement to avoid typing out the fully qualified type name, which spans my entire monitor, on each use of the deprecated class.

I think I want to do something like annotating the import statement with @SuppressWarnings (NOT POSSIBLE) or specifying in the @SuppressWarnings annotation which type to ignore warnings for (e.g. @SuppressWarnings("deprecation", "fully.qualified.type.name").

I want to indicate to the compiler "it's okay if I use this one, and only this one, deprecated class, referenced by its Simple Name, anywhere within this other class, and any other deprecated classes I reference you should let me know about".

Is there anything like this available?

Answer 1

A way to work around this would be to do the following, assuming you can extend the Deprecated class.

import comp.DeprecatedClass;

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation") public class MyDeprecatedClass extends DeprecatedClass{ }

Then you can use your version without having to worry about warnings.